Poetry from Katherine Anderson Howell
Photo: Benjamin Lehman The Millionaire of American Sadness American cheese and white bread and Bugles on fingers like dragon claws And the high school defensive end who grew up to go to Harvard and take my Zoloft so he wouldn’t run out of his own. And that’s in my American medical record now because I […]
Nonfiction from Beth Bilderback
Photo: Matthias Heyde Disaster Lover (June, 2020) A match lights a spark, the final straw, and blows up centuries of rage. One section of the Sunday New York Times reads simply, “The World is Broken.” My son wanders out into the city late one night and experiences tear gas for the first time, sees the […]
Fiction from Sabrina Hicks
Photo: Victor Lu Buying Raindrops I call a number that gets me a person on the line whose voice will ask me questions and quiet the house around me. I’ll have product 29485, I say, looking at the raindrops midair, smile wrapped around a girl’s face held up to a sun only she can see. […]
Poetry from Angela Ramos
Photo: Matt Artz Silt Mounds like this – now put pressure on the wound. the swollen Palina cigar box filled with memories and movements of me: my grandfather’s poker chips, clicking and scraping, red white and blue against one another; an iridescent turkey feather from the woods out back; that note from Violet, “you are […]
Fiction from Hema Nataraju
Photo: Tembinkosi Sikupela Tonight One of two things can happen tomorrow: either the parents will accept their newborn the way he is, despite the beard that touches the tips of his toes, wrap him in a thick blanket to hide his luminous face—which will glow brighter in the inky darkness of the night as they […]
Poetry from Richard Weaver
Photo: Clarissa Watson Take a word Any word. Please. Divide it by the square root of a gravid bulldog bat. Invert the hypotenuse then shanghai your neighbor’s Shetland pony. Divest yourself of any stock containing vowels. Go to the nearest Catholic church and confess to everything especially if you are not now or have never […]
Fiction from Hannah Grieco
Photo: Ice Tea The Three Witches There once was a witch, but nobody ever saw her. She lived deep in the forest and no one knew her story, about the woman who flew from her home, from her forced marriage and motherhood. From her children who clawed their way out of her body as she […]
Poetry from Liam Strong
Photo: Oziel Gómez non-suicide poem before your mouth was as wide as a shovel you loosened the collar of your boots like dinner plates waiting to be washed when i was ten we held our shoes upside- down like pistols aimed at our own undoing i’m too used to tying my sneakers indefinitely so that […]
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